camera

camera


cam·er·a    Audio Help   (kām'ər-ə, kām'rə)   

n.  
  1. An apparatus for taking photographs, generally consisting of a lightproof enclosure having an aperture with a shuttered lens through which the image of an object is focused and recorded on a photosensitive film, plate, or sensor.

  2. The part of a television transmitting apparatus that receives the primary image on a light-sensitive cathode-ray tube and transforms it into electrical impulses.

  3. Camera obscura.

  4. pl. cam·er·ae (-ə-rē) A judge's private chamber.


[Late Latin, room; see chamber.]
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